My favorite videos to download, however, are easily music videos. And let’s not forget educational YouTube-stars, like Veritasium and SmarterEveryDay. On the subject of product reviews, there’s also Marques Brownlee, an amazingly talented young man who makes epic videos from his dorm room in New Jersey.

Then there’s Pocket-now, who makes some of the best product reviews out there, with each video being around 10 minutes long. The Verge has three weekly shows: Top Shelf, which usually clocks in at 20 minutes, The Mobile Show, which is about an hour, and The Vergecast, which is about 90 minutes long. Why exactly would someone want to download YouTube videos? There are so many amazing content producers these days that it’s hard not to find something to keep you entertained. You get to pick what resolution you want, where you want the videos to go (internal storage versus memory card), and it couldn’t be simpler to use. TubeMate displays the exact same page, except when you go to watch a video, it gives you the option to download said video. How exactly does it work? Open up Chrome on your Android phone and go to YouTube’s website.

What exactly does it do? It lets you download YouTube videos. You’re not going to find it in the Google Play Store, because it unabashedly breaks YouTube’s terms of service.

Now considering one of my favorite things to do on my smartphone is watch video, how did I manage to feed my addiction? Simple, using an application called TubeMate. However, I spent the first three months of this year backpacking through Asia, and when I was lucky enough to find an internet connection, I often had to deal with a one or two megabit line. My girlfriend’s father has a fiber connection to his house that gives him gigabit access for just 10 Euros more. My unlimited 4G LTE connection costs 20 Euros ($27) a month and consistently gives me 35 megabits per second down.

When you live in Finland, you take connectivity for granted.

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